If you had to pick right now

[airtime143]

Saints in New Orleans is scary, but I doubt they get home field advantage with Brees out so long.

Cowboys are the most well-rounded NFC team at the moment.

Saints have a cakewalk the next few weeks. Jags might be for real, might be an illusion. beyond them, the bears are the only real game.
They have the bucs twice, the faltering falcons twice, the cards, and the panthers.
They could very easily be 10-2 by the time they face the 9ers.

I sure wouldnt rule out the road to the super bowl going through new orleans based on that schedule.

 

[bearmick]

With Brees, the Saints are the best team in the NFC.

Until someone else separates themselves at the top of the north, I have to say the Packers since they've beaten the Bears and Vikings.

 

[bearmick]

Brees is going to be out awhile, and there's no way Brigewater wins several more games.

None of those teams look that impressive right now. If this offense can just be ok with Daniel....

Lol @ this. They just beat two straight playoff caliber teams back to back without Brees, and their schedule before his return gets easier.

 

[HearshotKDS]

Don't see how anyone can say Bears are better than Packers after week 1. Packers are better team until Bears beat them, luckily Bears have a chance to prove their metal week 15. If bears can get their offense right, though, they are easily in the NFC top tier. Looking how the O handles weeks 7,8,9; if they can put up meaningful production in those games then I'm sold they are the real deal. I'm skeptical that results put up against WAS and OAK will be repeatable, I need to see points against decent teams and so far I've only seen 3, 16, 16. If Bears can put up 20 ppg on real teams I think the sky is the limit though.

 

[bamainatlanta]

I wouldn't pick the Bears until they can consistently average over 300yds of offense a game. Have yet to hit that mark on the season(?]

 

[WestCoastBearsFan]

I wouldn't pick the Bears until they can consistently average over 300yds of offense a game. Have yet to hit that mark on the season(?]

They haven’t. That’s fucking depressing.

 

[didshereallysaythat]

The Cowboys just lost the best offensive lineman in the NFL last night to a high ankle sprain.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cowboys-pr...ankle-sprain-in-loss-to-saints-132046936.html

 

[EDPeezy]

People around here love to ignore context so they can create a false narrative,

The Bears are a defensive team. Quit expecting huge offensive numbers. They’re not built for that. They can’t be KC. They haven’t really been in a position the last 2 weeks to need to put up offensive numbers. GB and Denver were defensive battles where neither team was putting up much against good defenses. The last two games were blowouts where the defense dominated and it would have been stupid for the offense to be out there opening up the playbook, slinging it around the field. They spent the whole second half in both those games trying kill the clock and not do anything stupid because Minny and Washington weren’t going to move the ball (other than in garbage time) against the Bears D.

I guess the Bears should fall behind big next week and then when the Raiders get into prevent the Bears can put up some garbage time meaningless, empty stats. Daniel can get an extra 100 or so yards. And after a 27-20 loss we can celebrate 300 yards of offense.

Or maybe we can pretend we dont have a dominant defense we should be game planning around and we can pretend we’re the KC Chiefs or some team like that and rely on our high powered offense. Have Daniel throw the ball 40 times. Turn the ball over a few more times a game. They should do that because it makes sense with the D the Bears have. Who cares about what’s best or conducive to winning. We need arbitrary offensive numbers on top of the wins.

 

[bamainatlanta]

They haven’t. That’s fucking depressing.

Yep, as good as it was yesterday-- Cousins missed some open players.

 

[Anytime23]

I agree with those saying NO w/ Brees. As far as the NFCN is concerned, I really don’t know.

 

[Omeletpants]

Patriots will destroy them all. Just end the season and give them the trophy

 

[pablovi]

Who is the best team in both the NFCN and the NFC overall? I think the bears edge out the packers as the best team in the NFCN but there are a whopping 6 teams with tied with the Bears in the NFC. The Bears, Packers, Saints, Rams, Seahawks, and the Cowboys all have 3-1 record. Also worth mentioning the 49ers are currently 3-0 since they had a week 4 bye.

You left the Lions out?
They were one mistake away from being undefeated, and beaten the Eagles and KC. They’ve had the toughest schedule in the division. And only have one loss, barely against arguably the best team in the NFL.
I still need to see the Lions play the Bears, to make a decision.

 

[KoreanBear]

Patriots will destroy them all. Just end the season and give them the trophy

This is probably true.

 

[nc0gnet0]

Saints, pretty easily, but they are usually much different on the road (although that was a beat down of Seattle was impressive).

Cowboys are a lot like the Bears. It's tough to put stock in their offense's performance against MIA, WAS, and NYG, all terrible defenses.

I think the Bears provided the template for controlling the Rams' offense (lots of pressure up the middle, stop the run, move Goff off his spot), and their defense is just average.

I think SF will get exposed against decent competition.

I think GB is probably the second best, and I think the Lions are really solid as well, easily the most well-rounded team they've had in years.

If Philly gets healthy (and I'm not sure of their particulars) I still think they are the best team in the East.

Tampa is interesting.

I think the Lions will beat the Packers. Hard to place the Bears, with such an elite D, but such a terrible O. Without turnovers, which are hard to count on, the bears are going to have problems consistently scoring enough points to win tough games.

 

[EDPeezy]

The media has tried to create this narrative that Patricia is incompetent and doesn’t know what he’s doing. Unfortunately for us he’s really been sticking it to them the last month or so.

The media will pretend they haven’t been trashing him though. They’ll just move on and pretend they weren’t after him and everyone will forget they spent the first two weeks of this season making him out to be a meathead idiot.

They did the same thing to Daniel Jones.

 

[Anytime23]

You left the Lions out?
They were one mistake away from being undefeated, and beaten the Eagles and KC. They’ve had the toughest schedule in the division. And only have one loss, barely against arguably the best team in the NFL.
I still need to see the Lions play the Bears, to make a decision.

Arizona dropped a pick 6 to beat them. As easy as it is to say that they’re one play away, they’re also another couple plays from 1-3.

I think they’re good but not that good.

 

[nc0gnet0]

1. Saints
2. Bears
3. Rams
4. Seahawks
5. Cowboys
6. Packers

How do you place a team that has beaten you 4 places below you?

 

[Anytime23]

Arizona dropped a pick 6 to beat them. As easy as it is to say that they’re one play away, they’re also another couple plays from 1-3.

I think they’re good but not that good.

And to be completely fair, the Bears are a play away from being 2-2.

 

[WestCoastBearsFan]

You left the Lions out?
They were one mistake away from being undefeated, and beaten the Eagles and KC. They’ve had the toughest schedule in the division. And only have one loss, barely against arguably the best team in the NFL.
I still need to see the Lions play the Bears, to make a decision.

Lions are a pretty good team and definitely a threat in the north. I was basing this off of record though.

 

[nc0gnet0]

The media has tried to create this narrative that Patricia is incompetent and doesn’t know what he’s doing. Unfortunately for us he’s really been sticking it to them the last month or so.

The media will pretend they haven’t been trashing him though. They’ll just move on and pretend they weren’t after him and everyone will forget they spent the first two weeks of this season making him out to be a meathead idiot.

They did the same thing to Daniel Jones.

Well, there is some truth to that. Matt P is doing a good job of building a foundation and changing the culture. He is a great coach Monday through Saturday. It's his Sunday coaching that is still a work in progress.